Happy for New Yorkers! If you can’t move to California—bring California to you!

I don’t think I’m on TikTok enough to understand why anyone would have voted for him.

ask @greg but here are some screenshots

also there’s videos of girls screaming “M-A-M-D-A-N-I Andrew Cuomo you need to DIE”

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Building a little space by the ocean called /thenextwave and watching everything on /videolab.

I just had dinner with a friend visiting the Bay Area. She's a prominent politician in her country, where she can't walk down the street without getting stopped. She set a historical record by winning her election at a young age and built a large social media following.

We talked about the various platforms and their distributions. She said the TikTok team courted her early on and guaranteed her *60 million views* if she joined. She turned their offer down. Later, they onboarded her opposition and gave them instant distribution.

The reach that TikTok can give smaller creators is incredible, sometimes life-altering. But TikTok can also give reach to select individuals in ways that bypass organic user activity and, in some cases, negotiate political influence behind closed doors.

In contrast, it can be hard to get seen on Farcaster. I saw this frustration expressed across many of the 4,000+ casts I went through in 48 hours. I also saw the team engaging with this issue with transparency and experimentation.

No one here can be guaranteed an easy path to virality. Maybe that's not such a bad thing. Maybe, in these complex times, it’s actually a reason to stick around.

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On a somewhat related note:

https://farcaster.xyz/patriciaxlee.eth/0xc50e3a5c

wild, i think tiktok is incredibly dangerous for this reason and understand why so many politicians in the US want it to be banned because it a) can guarantee distribution, but more importantly b) keep you in that in-group for the duration of the campaign. for both sides! but really depends on who is controlling it.